'Made' in the Bible

Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform made for this purpose. Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah stood beside him on his right; to his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

The people went out, brought back branches, and made booths for themselves on each of their rooftops, and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate, and the square by the Gate of Ephraim.

The whole community that had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. They had not celebrated like this from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. And there was tremendous joy.

You found his heart faithful in Your sight,and made a covenant with himto give the land of the Canaanites,Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,Jebusites, and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants.You have kept Your promise,for You are righteous.

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,all his officials, and all the people of his land,for You knew how arrogantly they treated our ancestors.You made a name for Yourselfthat endures to this day.

Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.

The king’s personal attendants suggested, “Let a search be made for beautiful young women for the king.

The king loved Esther more than all the other women. She won more favor and approval from him than did any of the other young women. He placed the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

Harbona, one of the royal eunuchs, said: “There is a gallows 75 feet tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.”The king commanded, “Hang him on it.”

That messenger was still speaking when yet another came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, made a raid on the camels, and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

fear and trembling came over meand made all my bones shake.

Is my strength that of stone,or my flesh made of bronze?

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

If I have sinned, what have I done to You,Watcher of mankind?Why have You made me Your target,so that I have become a burden to You?

They sweep by like boats made of papyrus,like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;your defenses are made of clay.

He has made me an object of scorn to the people;I have become a man people spit at.

They turned night into dayand made light seem near in the face of darkness.

God has made my heart faint;the Almighty has terrified me.

As God lives, who has deprived me of justice,and the Almighty who has made me bitter,

The dying man blessed me,and I made the widow’s heart rejoice.

I have made a covenant with my eyes.How then could I look at a young woman?

If I have dismissed the case of my male or female servantswhen they made a complaint against me,

Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them?Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

The Spirit of God has made me,and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

when I made the clouds its garmentand thick darkness its blanket,

I made the wilderness its home,and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

Look at Behemoth,which I made along with you.He eats grass like an ox.

If anyone does not repent,God will sharpen His sword;He has strung His bow and made it ready.

He dug a pit and hollowed it outbut fell into the hole he had made.

You made him little less than Godand crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him lord over the works of Your hands;You put everything under his feet:

The nations have fallen into the pit they made;their foot is caught in the net they have concealed.

He made darkness His hiding place,dark storm clouds His canopy around Him.

You have made my enemies retreat before me;I annihilate those who hate me.

Lord, when You showed Your favor,You made me stand like a strong mountain;when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

The heavens were made by the word of the Lord,and all the stars, by the breath of His mouth.

You, indeed, have made my days short in length,and my life span as nothing in Your sight.Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.Selah

“Gather My faithful ones to Me,those who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

You have made Your people suffer hardship;You have given us wine to drinkthat made us stagger.

They will be made to stumble;their own tongues work against them.All who see them will shake their heads.

But as for me, God’s presence is my good.I have made the Lord God my refuge,so I can tell about all You do.

You set all the boundaries of the earth;You made summer and winter.

He brought streams out of the stoneand made water flow down like rivers.

He made the east wind blow in the skiesand drove the south wind by His might.

He made them fall in His camp,all around His tent.

He made their days end in futility,their years in sudden disaster.

the root Your right hand has planted,the shoot that You made strong for Yourself.

Let Your hand be with the man at Your right hand,with the son of manYou have made strong for Yourself.

All the nations You have madewill come and bow down before You, Lord,and will honor Your name.

You have distanced my friends from me;You have made me repulsive to them.I am shut in and cannot go out.

The Lord said,“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;I have sworn an oath to David My servant:

You have lifted high the right hand of his foes;You have made all his enemies rejoice.

You have made his splendor ceaseand have overturned his throne.

Because you have made the Lord—my refuge,the Most High—your dwelling place,

For You have made me rejoice, Lord,by what You have done;I will shout for joybecause of the works of Your hands.

The sea is His; He made it.His hands formed the dry land.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,but the Lord made the heavens.

The Lord has made His victory known;He has revealed His righteousnessin the sight of the nations.

Acknowledge that Yahweh is God.He made us, and we are His —His people, the sheep of His pasture.

For He knows what we are made of,remembering that we are dust.

He made the moon to mark the festivals;the sun knows when to set.

How countless are Your works, Lord!In wisdom You have made them all;the earth is full of Your creatures.

the covenant He made with Abraham,swore to Isaac,

He made him master of his household,ruler over all his possessions—

The Lord made His people very fruitful;He made them more numerous than their foes,

At Horeb they made a calfand worshiped the cast metal image.

Their idols are silver and gold,made by human hands.

This is the day the Lord has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it.

י YodYour hands made me and formed me;give me understandingso that I can learn Your commands.

Plowmen plowed over my back;they made their furrows long.

The idols of the nations are of silver and gold,made by human hands.

He made the heavens skillfully.        His love is eternal.

He made the great lights:        His love is eternal.

I will praise Youbecause I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.Your works are wonderful,and I know this very well.

My bones were not hidden from Youwhen I was made in secret,when I was formed in the depths of the earth.

The Lord is good to everyone;His compassion rests on all He has made.

All You have made will thank You, Lord;the godly will praise You.

“I’ve made fellowship offerings;today I’ve fulfilled my vows.

“The Lord made meat the beginning of His creation,before His works of long ago.

before He made the land, the fields,or the first soil on earth.

Man cannot be made secure by wickedness,but the root of the righteous is immovable.

The hearing ear and the seeing eye—the Lord made them both.

The rich and the poor have this in common:the Lord made them both.

I made gardens and parks for myself and planted every kind of fruit tree in them.

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end.

Consider the work of God,for who can straighten outwhat He has made crooked?

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.”

Do not stare at me because I am dark,for the sun has gazed on me.My mother’s sons were angry with me;they made me a keeper of the vineyards.I have not kept my own vineyard.

King Solomon made a sedan chair for himselfwith wood from Lebanon.

He made its posts of silver,its back of gold,and its seat of purple.Its interior is inlaid with loveby the young women of Jerusalem.

Their land is full of idols;they bow down to the work of their hands,to what their fingers have made.

On that day people will throwtheir silver and gold idols,which they made to worship,to the moles and the bats.

They will not look to the altars they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they made with their fingers.

The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of confusion.The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does,as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

You made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider the One who created it long ago.

He stretched out His hand over the sea;He made kingdoms tremble.The Lord has commandedthat the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed.

Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people who no longer exist.Assyria destined it for desert creatures.They set up their siege towersand stripped its palaces.They made it a ruin.